Library Cataloging
The latest version of pymarc has the ability to change records from MARC-8 encoding to UNICODE, UTF-8. A task that most of our catalogs will have to go through in the next few years, I guess. Nice to have a tool for when that day arrives.
- Marc Update
News from LC about MARC. Update No. 15 (September 2012) is now available on the MARC website (www.loc.gov/marc/). It is integrated into the documentation for each of the Online Full and Concise formats that are maintained on that site -- the Bibliographic...
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Marc Rtp
A while back I posted that the MARC Record Translation Program (MARC RTP) had disappeared. Now it is back, though at a temporary home.MARC RTP was especially developed so that catalogue data contained in MARC format files could be converted, and selectively...
- Gsafd Thesaurus
Reading the article Using the OAI-PMH ... Differently by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young and Thomas B. Hickey in the latest D-Lib Magazine made me aware of an interesting resource, the GSAFD Thesaurus.The records have long been available for download...
- Marc Transformations
Some notes on open source projects this morning. MARC4J is currently at beta version 6.The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC records in Java.Using MARC4J it is easy to write any kind...
Library Cataloging
Pymarc
The latest version of pymarc has the ability to change records from MARC-8 encoding to UNICODE, UTF-8. A task that most of our catalogs will have to go through in the next few years, I guess. Nice to have a tool for when that day arrives.
The pymarc module provides an API for reading, writing and modifying MARC records from python. MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) is a metadata format for bibliographic data.
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While it's not rocket science to read MARC, it's also not something you want to code very often, so pymarc does the lifting for you. pymarc allows you to read records, extract arbitrary fields from each record, update records, and write records back out in transmission format.
- Marc Update
News from LC about MARC. Update No. 15 (September 2012) is now available on the MARC website (www.loc.gov/marc/). It is integrated into the documentation for each of the Online Full and Concise formats that are maintained on that site -- the Bibliographic...
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Marc Rtp
A while back I posted that the MARC Record Translation Program (MARC RTP) had disappeared. Now it is back, though at a temporary home.MARC RTP was especially developed so that catalogue data contained in MARC format files could be converted, and selectively...
- Gsafd Thesaurus
Reading the article Using the OAI-PMH ... Differently by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young and Thomas B. Hickey in the latest D-Lib Magazine made me aware of an interesting resource, the GSAFD Thesaurus.The records have long been available for download...
- Marc Transformations
Some notes on open source projects this morning. MARC4J is currently at beta version 6.The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC records in Java.Using MARC4J it is easy to write any kind...